News Release

Brookhaven Lab Scientist Stephen Schwartz Elected a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Stephen
Schwartz

UPTON, NY - Stephen Schwartz, a scientist at the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been
elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). With over 134,000 members from 130 countries
and 272 affiliated societies comprising more than 10 million
members, AAAS is the world’s largest federation of scientists.

Schwartz is among 291 members elected as Fellows in 2002 by
their peers. These individuals have been elevated to this rank
because of their efforts to advance science or foster
applications that are deemed scientifically or socially
distinguished. New Fellows will be presented with an official
certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin on February 15 at
the Fellows forum during the 2003 AAAS annual meeting in Denver,
Colorado.

“I am honored to be named a Fellow of AAAS,” Schwartz said.
“This nomination represents a very nice recognition of my
achievements, which would not have been possible without the
efforts and contributions of many colleagues at Brookhaven and
numerous other institutions, as well as encouragement and
funding from the Department of Energy.”

Schwartz was one of eight Fellows elected in 2002 in the
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section. His citation
reads: “For outstanding contributions to the understanding of
atmospheric aerosols and clouds.”

In his early years at Brookhaven, Schwartz developed methods
to describe the rate of reactions in clouds that lead to
production of acid rain. Research Schwartz conducted at

Brookhaven exerted a major influence on the drafting of the
acid deposition section of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.
More recently, Schwartz has been focusing on microscopic and
submicroscopic aerosol particles, which influence a variety of
atmospheric processes, from precipitation to climate change.

Schwartz received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from
Harvard University, in 1963, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. After postdoctoral
research at the University of Cambridge, England, Schwartz came
to Long Island to join the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook
University. In 1975, he joined Brookhaven Lab, where he is
currently a senior scientist in the Environmental Sciences
Department.

The
U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts
research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as
well as in energy technologies. Brookhaven also builds and operates
major facilities available to university, industrial, and government
scientists. The Laboratory is managed by Brookhaven Science
Associates, a limited liability company founded by Stony Brook
University and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology
organization.